Porter Davis homes

Hi Scott, I'm interested in this too! We got told the garage access door is the only door that we can not raise to 2340 because of this!

Make sure you check through all your drawings for the right heights because we had a few left out. Just fyi, we are also making our mirrors, shower screens, bulkheads, and windows line up at ~2340.

The shower screen looks really short in the elevations when everything else is raised. Am waiting for quoting on this.

The mirrors, I have actually lowered. They are meant to go up to the ceiling by default but they leave a hideous (imo) tiny gap (~3cm?) to the cornice that is not tiled. Lowering the mirrors to 2340 means I can tile above it.

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The people who had the garage raised to the same as the internal ceiling height are people building a single storey house, as the garage is actually framed at the same time as the house and therefore the roof trusses go over the garage as part of the roof. Double storey houses usually have separate garage roofs and some of the walls are entirely brick, no framing. We currently live in a single storey PD house with 2750 ceilings and the garage ceilings are the same as the internal ceiling, otherwise they would have had to drop the ceiling in the garage. Out garage door is 2340 high from the entry into the garage. I hope that this makes sense.

We are building a double storey and cannot raise the ceiling height because of the roof trusses. It would mean that the garage roof is higher and we would only have a tiny window above in the room that looks over the garage, otherwise all we would see is roof out of that window.[/quote]



Hi BP


Thanks for the explaination, it do make a lot sense to us now.

Also, understand the issue of raising garage height might block upstairs window .

Back to Sliik's question, if say standard is 2590 Ground floor + 2440 Garage

Now the ground floor been raised 150mm to 2740 , the garage should be able to raise 150mm to 2590 without blocking the upstair window.

It could be an option of putting a 2340mm internal access door then , am I right? ..........

You would think so! Considering I have also raised upstairs to 2740 AND had to keep their tiny facade windows so it should be at least 30cm higher!

I think they are just lazy and tend to go with their standard answers for everything non-standard . ie 'no'

Unfortunately, this is one of those ones where we decided not to push harder.. so now we have that one odd sized door.. hopefully not too off putting

Did anyone choose the Nexion Vision mechanical lockset for their front door? I've noticed that our passage set can be unlocked without a key from the inside which means its the single cylinder version.

If I had known, I would have asked for the double cylinder version and there is a distinct lack of details regarding the model number on the Hopetoun selection list.

Its really quite frustrating that these options are not fully explained during the selection process.....

Just to add to frustration - for most insurance policies, you need a front door that has a deadbolt. So its baffling that Porter Davis would provide an option that just causes more headaches down the road.

What?? You would think double cylinder is standard!

Have u put the snib position to 'secure mode'?

Manual: http://mpc.assaabloy.com/lockwoodfile/Fetchfile.aspx?id=2749&dl=1

Our report and PD's report came back as identical soil type, stiffness and plasticity... however ours comes to M-class and PD's to H1-class. The only difference is the moisture: PD says extremely moist, ours says extremely dry, which is weird seeing that the holes were within 1m of each other. I have email our BC (who has been great) and they have said that they will follow it up. I have PD them the report that we commissioned.

By the way... I'm not actually that worried because stronger footings would be good for a 2 storey house!